News from June 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2017
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - The owner of a purported business consulting firm was arrested today for operating a $1.1 million scheme that artificially inflated the stock price of a publicly traded company he controlled, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2017
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A Lawrence woman who pleaded guilty to forging her ex-husband’s signature on official documents when she fled to Europe with her daughters was sentenced Tuesday to three years on probation including six months home confinement, U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2017
News Release: Fort Smith, Arkansas - Kenneth Elser, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that David Hurl Lemmon, age 44, of Alma, Arkansas was sentenced today to 420 months in federal prison followed by 5 years of supervised release on one count of Conspiracy to Distribute Methamphetamine...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2017
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Two crack-cocaine wholesalers for the New Jersey set of the Grape Street Crips were each sentenced today to 18 years in prison for their roles in racketeering and drug trafficking conspiracies operating in Newark, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that PAUL MIGNANI, 51, of Bethel, was sentenced yesrerday by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey A. Meyer in New Haven to 60 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release for his conviction on one...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 21, 2017
News Release: ELKO, Nev. - More than 100 wildland firefighters are on the scene of a wildland fire approximately 5 miles northwest of Jiggs, NV in Elko County. The Red Springs fire has burned approximately 4,060 acres and is 15% contained. No structures are threatened.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Kenneth Matthew Adame, 24, of Las Cruces, N.M., pled guilty today in federal court to a methamphetamine trafficking charge under a plea agreement with the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Patricia M. Ferrick, Special Agent in Charge of the New Haven Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, announced that ANDREW SACCO, 44, of New Haven and formerly of Durham, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to charges stemming from his participation in a large-scale fencing operation.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2017
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Monmouth County, New Jersey, woman who owned a computer training center today admitted stealing $2.8 million from a program designed to help veterans find employment, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 21, 2017
News Release: Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), chairwoman of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, today issued the following statement in support of the Trump administration’s selection of Dr. A. Wayne Johnson to fill the position of chief operating officer at the Department of Education’s Office of Federal Student Aid (FSA)...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2017
News Release: LITTLE ROCK-Patrick C. Harris, Acting United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas, and Diane Upchurch, Special Agent in Charge of the Little Rock Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), announced today that James Edgerson, 39, of Dumas, was sentenced to 135 months in federal prison for his role in a large-scale drug conspiracy.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 21, 2017
News Release: A man who sexually abused a child in Yosemite National Park in 2015 was recently sentenced to serve 43 months in prison. Marcus Anthony Maluhia Araiza, Jr., now age 20, was indicted by a federal grand jury in September 2015 on charges of aggravated sexual abuse and abusive sexual contact with a child under age 12.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 21, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks at a Communications and Technology Subcommittee hearing on “Defining and Mapping Broadband Coverage in America:"
By EPA Newswire | Jun 21, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Communications and Technology Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), today held a hearing examining the challenges and opportunities to achieve nationwide broadband coverage.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2017
News Release: MADISON, WIS. -- A federal grand jury in the Western District of Wisconsin, sitting in Madison, returned the following indictments today. You are advised that a charge is merely an accusation and that a defendant is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 21, 2017
News Release: Seven and a half years ago, Obamacare was presented to the American people as quality and affordable care for all.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2017
News Release: Admits Using $149,317 for Clubs, Hotels, Restaurants, and Women.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 21, 2017
News Release: Cybersecurity is one of this Committee’s top priorities. Today’s hearing is our fifth hearing examining this threat. In other hearings on this topic we explored the importance of information sharing and the need for liability protections; the OPM and IRS data breaches; and the broad cybersecurity threat landscape-criminal attacks, malicious attacks, industrial espionage, and cyber warfare.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2017
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Jose M. Osorio, III, age 28, of York County, Pennsylvania, was indicted by a federal grand jury for crack cocaine trafficking and possession of a firearm and ammunition as a previously convicted felon.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2017
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tom Larson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Kansas City, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for possessing a stolen firearm.
